Every day in the U.S. about 108 people are shot dead in one way or another. At GunMemorial.org we try to post pages for all of these people even though the circumstances of their deaths can be drastically different.

Marcello Contreras, age 41

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Fatally shot on April 21, 2016 in Silver City, New Mexico.

Contreras, a police captain, killed his girlfriend and then himself while off-duty.

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One other person also died in this incident.

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